Informatica Fast Clone provides a fast and efficient way for unloading and extracting Oracle data into a universally portable format for movement across the enterprise or for reorganization in place. It allows high speed cloning of application data housed in Oracle tables of any size – even terabytes of data - into a variety of target systems including portable flat text files, named pipes, or directly to a destination database system or data warehouse appliance, including Oracle Exadata – all without compromising the performance of the production database systems. Its rapid unload – faster than Oracle’s own Oracle Direct Path Export – combined with its highly parallelized distribution of data across different versions, platforms, and targets increases your organization’s productivity by providing the data when and wherever needed in as rapid a manner as possible, while preserving the performance and productivity of the production Oracle systems from which the data is being drawn.

Informatica Fast Clone addresses a broad range of use cases, from traditional unload/cloning applications such as offloading for archival purposes to new use cases such as allowing reorganization of your Oracle data in place. One of the most compelling solutions Fast Clone provides is its ability to rapidly publish application data into data warehouses and modern DW/analytical appliances to enable analytics and reporting without impact on the production system. Many Informatica customers use Informatica Fast Clone to transfer data from production Oracle systems into IBM Netezza, allowing fast migration with very low overhead on Oracle.

Informatica Fast Clone supports the following sources and targets:

Sources:

Oracle 8, 9, 10, and 11

Targets:

Oracle 8, 9, 10, and 11

MS SQL Server

DB2 LUW

Teradata

IBM Netezza

EMC Greenplum

HP Vertica

Sybase ASE

MySQL

PostGRES

The main features of the block are:

Built-in, on-the-fly compression for data unloading and loading.

Significantly reduces storage needs and network overhead.

Comprehensive formatting capabilities.

Helps users easily configure the output through an intuitive interface. Supports various file formats such as fixed-length records, EBCDIC character set, Comp-3, and Teradata binary format.

Informatica products are supported on all major server operating systems, client operating systems and web browsers.

The support provided varies for products, operating system versions and Informatica product versions. We recommend that you verify the availability of the product for the configuration that you need before making the purchase.